By Laura BennettWednesday 5 Jul 2023Hope AfternoonsCultureReading Time: 2 minutes
Thinking of Mozart might take you back to high school music lessons or a mandatory exploration of the “classics” to make you more cultured, but these school holidays the 18th century icon gets a spunky makeover in Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus.
Suitable for three-year-olds and above, the production tells the story a young woman who’s having a birthday party that no one turns up to. She opens a present she’s bought herself – a Mozart record – and as she puts it on to play Mozart appears in her loungeroom and they go on all sorts of thrilling imagined adventures.
“Mozart’s music is integrated beautifully into the show,” Associate Director Benjamin Knapton told Hope 103.2.
“There’s a great combo between the amazing acrobatics that our ensemble do and [the] music.”
For some children in the audience, it’ll be their first experience of the classical genre which is why the producers wanted to make it fun and inviting so the value of Mozart is felt.
For some children in the audience, it’ll be their first experience of the classical genre which is why the producers wanted to make it fun and inviting so the value of Mozart is felt.
“The music does something to your brain,” Benjamin said.
“It’s so complex, beautiful and sophisticated and putting it together with spectacular acrobatics is a different way to consume the work.
“A lot of the music is specifically choreographed, so it’s like you’re seeing the music come to life – it’s so fun and bombastic [and] and engaging for a young demographic.”
Wolfgang’s Magical Musical Circus will run at Riverside Theatres in Parramatta July 10-12.
Listen to Benjamin Knapton’s full interview with Laura Bennett in the player above.